You're right. After making my second post last night I realized it would be nice if I told everyone what I had figured out.

After finding posts about this subject on other forums, 100% suggested NOT to put it in the DB and keep it on the file system instead.

So that's what I'm doing. There is one image per record, so when the user uploads the file, I change the name to be the same as the record_id. So if the record_id is 35, the image is changed to 35.jpg.